Power restored to 800,000 in Kyiv after major Russian strikes in Ukraine

Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said that the main work to restore the power supply" had been completed, but that some localised outages were still affecting the Ukrainian capital following Friday's "massive" Russian attacks

Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and European leaders agreed to proceed toward using hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's war effort.

Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said "The main work to restore the power supply" had been completed, but that some localised outages were still affecting the Ukrainian capital following Friday's "massive" Russian attacks